ROCKETDYNE PLANS TO DETONATE DEVICES.Byline: David Greenberg The creator of this article, or someone who has substantially contributed to it, may have a conflict of interest regarding its subject matter. It may require cleanup to comply with Wikipedia's content policies, particularly neutral point of view. Daily News Staff Writer Three small pieces of an unspecified military ordnance, believed to be remnants from testing conducted decades ago, will be detonated by Rocketdyne workers and explosives experts Monday. Workers at the Rocketdyne Propulsion & Power Santa Susana Santa Susana can refer to several places:
prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Dan Beck, a Rocketdyne spokesman. Pending receipt of a permit from Ventura County fire authorities, the items will be detonated on site in a former ordnance bay, which consists of 8-inch-thick walls of reinforced concrete reinforced concrete Concrete in which steel is embedded in such a manner that the two materials act together in resisting forces. The reinforcing steel—rods, bars, or mesh—absorbs the tensile, shear, and sometimes the compressive stresses in a concrete , he said. Beck stressed that the detonation poses no danger to residents in the surrounding area. The explosion will not be very loud and will not create a visible flash or any other effect that could disturb nearby residents, he said. ``These items were discovered as part of our intensive effort to clean up the entire SSFL SSFL Santa Susana Field Laboratory (Boeing Company, Rocketdyne Propulsion and Power, Ventura, California) facility,'' Beck said in a released statement. ``Locating, investigating and disposing of these items in a safe and timely manner demonstrates that the systems and safeguards that we have in place do work.'' His remarks were not enough to placate pla·cate tr.v. pla·cat·ed, pla·cat·ing, pla·cates To allay the anger of, especially by making concessions; appease. See Synonyms at pacify. the concerns of Dan Hirsch, president of the Committee to Bridge the Gap environmental watchdog group, who said he was shocked to learn of the ordnance's existence. ``We've been monitoring the site for 20 years, and it has never been previously disclosed that the site was involved in testing of military ordnance,'' he said. ``I'm particularly concerned because it appears the company improperly disposed of these hazardous materials.'' |
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